The band started utilising keyboards in their live shows, and while that hardly seems like a maverick move today, it raised a few eyebrows at the time. “It was really weird. Bands didn’t usually do that. It was always just bass, drums and guitar … Nirvana, Pearl Jam, grunge. That new wave stuff from the 80s was really out of fashion when were starting out. The complaints mostly came from disgruntled soundmen, not from audience members. We had these Casio’s blasting through amps, which just sounded insane.” Trans Am had flipped post-rock on its head: instead of using rock instruments for
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